By invitation only Seventeen artists have joined together to explore the heartache and loss of homes taken for New York City’s Catskill & Delaware water systems. Enjoy their beautiful art creations along with photos, stories and cutting edge augmented reality technology, which brings the paintings to life! Wine and cheese refreshments, presentation and more.

In person only, weather permittingDuring the Great Depression many people relied on their home gardens to grow herbs to use as remedies. Chicken soup and medicinal herbs helped them stay healthy. Join trustee and horticulturist Diana K. Weiner to learn how to grow and harvest annual and perennial herbs inthe 1930’s Catskill Farmhouse garden.

Go back in time to a 1930s Catskill farm with a house, barn, milk house, outhouse, electric plant and working waterwheel. Explore the new interactive waterpower industry exhibition, a collaborative project with the Rondout Neversink Stream Management Program and theGillette Family of Grahamsville. Enjoy light refreshments, guided tours, demonstrations a talk on waterwheels and more....

Spend a couple hours this summer at the Catskill Farm pavilion to learndrawing from artists exhibiting in Bittersweet Memories: Lost Towns of the Catskill Watersheds. The drawing workshop will be held in the open air, working from an oldor vintage photograph of your choice. Artists guide you through the process they use to bring an...

Tour the Pergamena Tannery in Montgomery, NY and see the old time tanning process. Jesse Meyer, owner of Pergamena Parchments and Leathers comes from a family that has been tanning leather for 470+ years. The tannery produces vegetable tanned leather and is one of a small number of producers of animal skin parchment around the...

Join us in Claryville to help celebrate the first Claryville Day.

Join Allen Frishman discussing his new book, a continuation of humorous telling of the great times the baby boomer generation had growing up in “The Country”. This was the period of Jewish exodus from city heat to country cool-air. Jewish Lightning, a rare Catskill phenomenon, Mendel’s Mansion, and of course, the Woodstock Festival are included....

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Grahamsville Fairgrounds At the Grahamsville Fairgrounds... The Mountain Athletic Club (MAC) of Fleischmanns will face off with the Connecticut Base Ball Club of Hartford for a double-header of 1864 and 1895 rules base ball. “These are no ordinary ball games,” states Collin Miller, captain of the MAC. “The players and the style of play will...

Experience old time cider making with a hand cider press. A fall activity on any farm that had an apple orchard, cider making has a long history. Since the safety of drinking water was a concern in early America, cider continued to be the best choice. Early settlers also believed cider could aid and prevent...